I couldn't afford a PC when I went back to school and the LSU Computer center IBM-PC's were taken by grad students who required no sleep.. ever. So I used a Commodore 64 first... When that gaggle of hardware took up too much space, I traded my Opel GT for a Kaypro and got good at CPM and hacking the CPU clock to run at 2, and 4 MB per second!

I was smokin'... so were the Z-80's.

Hmmm, Arduino/PIC and the 914!

Back on topic, This site's fine with me.

Thanks!

Yes, we had the Apple II, the 8088 was just a year away. We also had access to the mainframe at LANL from our high school.

I could have this whole thing running on the Raspberry Pi that runs my coffee maker and have it done by tomorrow morning.

The Apple II might have been introduced but it was years away from being useful or anything but a novelty.

Has to be the funniest quote in the thread and everyone just danced over it

And the irony of how the original post could easily be attributed to our cars

Leave ANDY alone! This site is GREAT with Me. Of course I am old enough

to remember my Aunts Grank Wall Phone !!! I also bought my Son a Commodore

64 , and had no idea or clue of how it worked.

Do this wait till I die then change it all.

Please,

Dave

All operating systems and development platforms are continually being improved and capabilities added. As they ADD new capabilities, they also stop supporting "Old stuff" that is obsolete. Operating systems like Windows, browsers like Internet Explorer, and custom applications like this site must ALL WORK TOGETHER in order to continue to work. That is why all business keep their software upgraded.

10 years ago the internet was just becoming a place where business could be done. 20 years ago Internet Explorer didn’t even exist. And now…things are changing EVEN FASTER.

I like this site, and think it is fine and it might run fine for another 5 years…maybe even 10 if Internet Explorer, Firefox, and the other browsers keep an “Antique Browser Code” mode.

But be assured that at some point, new browsers will begin having problems with this site and then we will have no choice but to upgrade; and then it will be done under pressure.

I never said we actually used them for anything... Just that they we had them in 1978. Just think though, within 6 years of that we had the Macintosh. And we definately used them.

In fact I still have my MacPlus, Quadra 950, and first gerneration PowerBook. They all work perfectly, very slow, but they work. No need for any upgrades or support. They do what they were designed to do.

There's a word for the day. And all the other sentiments that boil down to this. We are in good hands.

Gint, Doc, Ferg, me . . . all us us were shocked - and ashamed - when it turned oot to be a Michael behind all of that.


I bet Woody causes the next crash.

We are in great hands, till his fingers start to hurt or Danny hunts him down

dANNY can't hunt anything down except his next drug.

Thanks again to our local admin crew.

Why thank you very much for your expression of thought for us simple minded Canadians. You have a kind soul - Hockey's back

Love this site

While that is true, it was noted early in the thread that this forum is coded in PHP. Pretty much all the current forum software is also PHP-based, so I doubt there is much to worry about near-term (other than normal issues such as some of the older front-side HTML commands being deprecated which all sites have to deal with).
The initial post seemed to be concerned about the presentation (CSS) being outdated, not the functionality. Personally, I think a forum about 40 year-old cars should look a bit outdated.

..and thank heaven hockey is back!

Hockey??? .... a bunch of dudes fighting on an icy pond ....

Watching grass grow is much more exciting.

Dude ...

Et tu, Brute?

Yo to that!

Andy I think it's great. My experience at IBM was everytime we changed equipment or software on a customer it was expensive to transfer all the data to the new system.

Great site Andy. Thanks for all of your work and time (which is in short supply).
Dino
Toronto